Optical Record Systems was awarded ‘Compliance Product of the Year’ at the Document Manager 2011 awards for its HousingDocs system. The awards were allocated on the basis of over 19,000 votes from the readership of Document Manager magazine. This follows ORS winning ‘Website of the Year’ at the magazine’s 2010 awards. Simon Challis, managing director,…
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024 - November 2011
Invu appoints dedicated housing consultants
Invu has made two new housing-specific appointments with the hiring of Steven Rhodes and Kevin Hardy as dedicated consultants within the company’s housing division. Rhodes has extensive experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, including six years’ experience with Aareon and other housing systems as well as expertise in interfacing Invu systems with financial systems….
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Seren’s £120k EDM project with Invu
Seren Group has completed the implementation of a centralised document repository from Invu to give staff immediate access to all tenant and housing documentation. After a two-month implementation, the Invu electronic document management system went live in August 2010, followed by six-months of back-scanning Seren’s documents. Invu reported that the total cost of the project,…
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Component accounting – leave it to the professionals
With the impending SoRP deadline looming in April 2012, housing providers are under increasing pressure to implement a model for component accounting that reduces costs and enables them to manage their assets more efficiently to ensure SoRP compliance. However, component accounting and asset management are often mistaken for the same thing in the housing sector,…
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Southern Housing implements BluTek sales & marketing system
Southern Housing Group has begun using a web-based ‘software as a service’ system from BluTek for its property sales and marketing activities. Mark Sutton, sales and marketing director, Southern Housing Group, said, “When we began our initiative to improve efficiency and increase income from the sale and marketing of our property portfolios, we knew we…
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Antonine’s SoRP compliance plans with RAM
Antonine Housing Association is implementing Real Asset Management’s Asset4000 component accounting software in readiness for the April 2012 deadline for SoRP compliance. From April 2012, housing providers will have to break their asset accounting down into individual components; anything that is currently deemed replaceable, such as a roof or bathroom, will count as an individual…
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